AFEX 2025

 AFEX 2025 brought together leading figures from Africa and around the world. Many important individuals attended the event, including His Excellency Anûuyirtole Roland Somda, Minister of Sports, Youth, and Employment of Burkina Faso; Honorable Aisha Kabanda, Member of Parliament from Uganda; Honorable Amie Colley, Member of Par-liament from The Gambia; Ambassador Majok Guandong Thiep of South Sudan; Ambas-sador Alfred Mutiwazuka of Zimbabwe; Ambassador Charles Kayonga of Rwanda; Am-bassador Djuma Kauzeni Rashidi of the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Kamala Bid-ialou, Head of Mission at the Embassy of Togo. Additionally, Dele Oye, President of NACCIMA; Fayez Al Eter, Board Member of Fujairah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UAE); Sonia Toro, Executive Director of the EU-Afri-ca Chamber of Commerce; Rena Qafarova, President of the Azerbaijan-Africa Coopera-tion Organization (AFAZ); and Werner Trieloff, Senior Africa Representative of the Afro-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (AfroChamber), also participated in the event, adding significant value to the program. The organization, which also included Ambassa-dor Alhaji Salamu Amadu, President and Chairman of Afro-Arab Group, Zakaria Fellah, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, and representatives from the embassies of Zambia, Kenya, and Libya, transformed into a platform that strengthened dialogue between the public and private sectors, promoting high-level interaction and coopera-tion. On a national level, the esteemed presence of Mr. Mahmut Gürcan, Deputy Minister of Trade of the Republic of Turkey; Mr. Davut Gül, Governor of Istanbul; and Mr. Atakan Atasoy, District Governor of Beyoğlu, was a source of great pleasure and honor for AFEX 2025. AFEX 2025 also brought together numerous valuable guests, including the CEO of Happy Center, a Member of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Assembly and Head of the Retail Committee, a European Expert and Board Member of the Economic Develop-ment Foundation (İKV), Mr. Yavuz Altun, Board Member of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), Mr. Özkan Altuntaş, Head of Foreign Relations and Activities Department of the Turkish Exporters Assembly, representatives from the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, and senior executives from over 150 companies